• Are you ready to scale?

    Are you ready to scale?

    Complete this self-assessment to understand how close your product is to being ready for the big time!

  • If you have Michael Keer's book - Agile Hardware Product Realization then you'll have learned about the multiple factors and activities that go into making a hardware product and how to get it into volume production. This assessment accompanies the book to allow you to make a determination on how ready you, your company and your product are to move from prototype to volume manufacturing at scale. 

    In this assessment you will answer questions related to these factors which influence product readiness . Please take this chance to be really honest with your answers to all of the questions below.

    If you don't see an answer which represents all of what you think you have in place then you should try to pick the answer which describes most of what you think you have in place. Remember, this is assessing your current position not wishes for the future.

    The assessment is divided into multiple sections each covering aspects of the whole product you are making. At the end of your inputs you will submit the answers to us and we will return an appraisal of your product readiness by email. “There are 6 sections, and it takes about 15 minutes to complete.” 

    The image below is from the final chapter of Michael's book and summarises the areas that this assessment will cover.

  • an image from the book: Agile Hardware Product Realization by Michael Keer (www.prgnpi.com)

  • A note from us: This questionnaire can seem quite daunting and long but, believe us, it's worth taking the time to complete it to give you the best picture of your readiness to scale your hardware product.

  • The best way to get a full picture of where your product is at is to have several people from your company, across the different disciplines or departments, fill in this assessment. We will collate the data from all your submissions to give you the result.

    Please tell us more about your company and product below:

  • Before we begin let's gather a few details from you

    This will help us to give you your results, especially if you have multiple people fill in this assessment.
  • Are you planning to have multiple people from your company complete this assessment?*

  • Section 1: Marketing and Product Requirements

  • How well resourced are your marketing and product management teams?*
  • What level of market assessment have you performed?*
  • How well developed are your marketing strategy and plans to support both you initial product launch and scaling in the market?*
  • How well defined are your Market and Product Requirements Documents (MRD/PRD)?*
  • How well defined is your Minimum Viable Product (MVP)?*

  • Section 2: Product Development

  • How well-resourced is your New Product Development and Introduction (NPDI) team?*
  • How have you assessed your technical/IP and development risk?*
  • How flexible is your design and development process?*
  • What does you NPDI Schedule look like?*
  • How well defined is your overall product realization strategy?*

  • Section 3: Reliability, Validation and Compliance

  • Thinking about resources for reliability, validation and compliance, which statement best applies to your team?*
  • Do you feel you company or product is at risk from failures in the areas of reliability, validation or compliance?*
  • How complete are your reliability strategies and plans?*
  • How complete are your validation and production test strategies and plans?*
  • How complete are your regulatory compliance strategies and plans?*

  • Section 4: Business Systems and Processes

  • Is your team ready to implement Business Systems and Process?*
  • Have you assessed your Business Process and Systems risk?*
  • How automated are your Business Processes?*
  • How complete are your Business Process and Systems strategies and plans?*
  • Have you mapped your systems and data flows?*

  • Section 5: Operations, Supply Chain, Logistics and Returns

  • When you think about how you will manage these areas, what's the best way to describe your team's preparedness?*
  • Do you understand the potential risks associated with operations, supply chain, logistics and returns activities?*
  • Are your Operations, Supply Chain, Logistics and Returns strategy and plans complete?*
  • Considering the statements below, which best matches what you think is your product's current status?*
  • How do you think about your Supply Chain?*

  • 6. Sustainability

  • How Sustainable is your product?*
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